bloodymary comic pages 7-8/12
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This was going to be a quick fake poster for an imaginary sequel to Hot Fuzz so I could yap about my thoughts and ideas but I ended up spending days on it which is very unusual for me. My love for the movie still burns strong I suppose.
Anyway, on the Hot Fuzz commentary track Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg talk about how Joyce wasn’t entirely wrong to call Nicolas a fascist and they left a bunch of clues that Nicolas had turned Sandford into his own little police state once he was put in charge. Him wearing black leather gloves in the last scene was supposed to clue us onto him being the new antagonist of the town.
At first I didn’t like that idea because Hot Fuzz was such a comfort movie for me but the more I thought about it the more I liked it. The public are far more knowledgeable about how violent the police can be and a sequel could comment on that.
Below are my ideas and thoughts on a sequel story.
A new recruit, a young woman of color, arrives in Sandford. Ever since she was a young girl she dreamt of meeting Nicolas who has become something of a legend after he exposed the Sandford cult and cleaned the town up. He even seems to be the rare case of a truly ethical police officer who follows the evidence instead of profiling people and isn’t afraid to go for the rich old white people at the top.
Nicolas is very pleasant and even a bit cheeky like at the end of the movie but he’s also much older and acts his age. He introduce her to his police officers who have all been swapped out with younger people. All except Danny. The new police officers are pleasant enough but kinda intimidating, and Danny is like a ray of sunshine at the station. He is a sweet and jovial middle aged man who calls everyone love and sweetheart and his desk is allowed to be messy and cosy for some reason. Weight and Pegg have said several times that Danny is Nicolas’ romantic interest in the movie so the recruit notice Nicolas squeezing Danny’s hand when he introduce him but she doesn’t see a ring on either of their fingers. Nicolas informs her that troublemakers have been running circles around them for months so she came at just the right time.
At first she’s very impressed with Sandford. It’s clean, safe and people are very friendly. But then she starts noticing the cameras everywhere. Some were inherited from the previous force but there’s also a lot of more modern cameras. Then she notice that people immediately change their whole personality when they notice her. She starts putting things together and realize things might not be as idyllic as she thought.
She weren’t sure if Nicolas and Danny were out so she didn’t say anything but while she’s on patrol with Nicolas a shop owner asks him when he’s going to “put a ring on it” and Nicolas tells them he doesn’t want to rush things and doesn’t need the law to dictate his and Danny’s relationship. He’s completely oblivious to how contradictory that excuse sounds coming from him because he’s too convinced that he’s not as much of a stickler for the rules as he used to be.
Eventually the new recruit finds Danny sitting alone at the pub. The owner is very attentive and overly friendly with him which seems to bother Danny but he doesn’t say anything. She has a talk with Danny and he admits that he knows the townspeople are scared of the police now and he feels guilty because Nicolas was always obsessed with the law and Danny taught him to enforce it with violence. Now Nicolas is upending the town in search for the mysterious troublemakers and Danny doesn’t know what to do. The recruit tries to tell Danny that he’s the only person Nicolas listens to but Danny won’t hear it.
It naturally ends with a big climax where it’s revealed that the troublemakers are the old police force who were pushed out and replaced with a new force who is extremely loyal to Nicolas. The old gang confronts Nicolas with what he has done to the town but Nicolas doesn’t believe them. He yells “I am the good cop!” and goes into a rant about him being the one good apple who exposed the rot of the barrel and made Sandford safe and lawful, but when he asks Danny to confirm Danny just says “…People are scared, Nicolas” That completely deflates Nicolas and it clearly hurts him when Danny tells him that the townspeople are even afraid of Danny, that he doesn’t even feel part of the town he grew up in anymore because everyone are walking on eggshells around him, that they see him as an extension of Nicolas. And in a way he wants that. He wants to be part of Nicolas, but not like this. That finally force Nicolas to wake up and see what he has become. The new force aren’t pleased with this and action ensures.
By the end he finally marries Danny and the two of them retire together because Nicolas realize he’s not the new blood the town needs. He’s still nosy and becomes the head of the neighborhood watch but he has no real power anymore.
The question is if the new recruit will manage to police Sandford better or if her era will just have different problems.
Found my husband’s baby book. OBSESSED with an image of him, newborn baby, on what looks like a large white comforter, alone, with the caption New Guy In Town. Obsessed I tell you.
mature content warnings on text posts of nothing but letters on a screen. . . remember when you were allowed to post like an adult and not be shamed or silenced for it
there is no acceptable explanation for this post being given a mature content warning outside of saying that you are an adult baby on the cyber nanny website!
Re-creating my first webcomic from 12 years ago, "Hair Expectations vs Reality."
I can't help but feel all kinds of emotions after re-visiting the original comic: the one that started it all. A lot has changed since then, and I feel so fortunate to still create art and tell stories for a living. Thanks for your support, and sticking around for so long ❤️
I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.
Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.
Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.
Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane
i had a dream last night that kermit the frog died. it was on the news "kermit the frog, aged 96, has passed away peacefully in his sleep"
i turned to my mom like "how does that even work, he's a puppet?" she got really mad at me and said through tears "now's not the time, the frog JUST died. show some respect."